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Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

With the new MIT Museum now open, “Gestural Engineering” returns, to the relief of many, though not quite as before. The new exhibition pairs Ganson’s works — fewer than before, it should be noted — with a piece by Andy … Continued

Jan 19, 2023
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Janet Echelman’s memorable 2015 piece wins Boston Society for Architecture’s Harleston Parker Medal

Echelman’s 2015 sculpture “As If It Were Already Here” is the first ephemeral piece and artwork to win the Harleston Parker Medal

Jan 18, 2023
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Classical music to keep us warm this winter

Guerilla is now associated with the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST) and this first collaboration sounds delicious.

Jan 11, 2023

Welcome to the worst month of the year

Have a night at the museum with the MIT museum after dark. This month’s theme is ‘Making Memories,’ with dancing, games, and food and drink from local vendors.

Jan 9, 2023
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New MIT Museum showcases latest scientific advancements

Artificial intelligence, robotics and gene sequencing are the stuff of headlines, science fiction and sometimes even our worst fears. It’s all on view at the new MIT Museum.

Jan 3, 2023
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The MIT Morningside Academy for Design will create a hub for design education, research, and entrepreneurship on campus.

The interdisciplinary careers of its faculty directors, John Ochsendorf and Maria Yang ’91, offer a glimpse of the possibilities in store.

Dec 19, 2022
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‘How to make applesauce’: A photograph that made time stand still

Exploding with energy but perfectly still, Harold “Doc” Edgerton’s 1964 image of a .30-caliber bullet ripping through an apple showed an otherwise unseeable moment in captivating detail. The longtime Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor used it to illustrate a … Continued

Dec 18, 2022

A Round-Up of New Design Monographs

The new MIT Museum is the latest project by Boston-based practice Höweler + Yoon. Their book’s exploration of recent work by the former Design Vanguard firm demonstrates how verification is an integral part of the design process, and how uncertainty … Continued

Dec 15, 2022

Höweler + Yoon’s Redesigned MIT Museum Pays Homage to the Institution’s 50-Year History

The MIT Museum, dedicated to the history of invention and innovation that sprang from the university, used to be housed in a nondescript converted warehouse off campus. But now it has a prominent new home just off Kendall Square, the … Continued

Dec 13, 2022

Asia’s 2022 Heroes Of Philanthropy

Annual list that highlights the region’s top philanthropists who have demonstrated a strong personal commitment to causes such as education and the environment includes Ronnie and Gerald Chan, The Hong Kong billionaire siblings in October gifted $100 million to the … Continued

Dec 5, 2022

Azza El Siddique: In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed

Azza El Siddique’s exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center is a treatise on scent and transformation. In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed proposes scent as a cultural signifier, an object of commerce, an invocation of memory, a lived experience, a historical artifact, … Continued

Dec 3, 2022
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Sensitive stomach? Then urine trouble if you see ‘Symbionts’ at MIT List Visual Arts Center.

This exhibition of ‘bio art’ features works made of distilled pee and ‘fired mammalian dung glazed in breastmilk,’ among other substances and secretions.

Nov 30, 2022
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Looking back at an experiment in looking and learning at MIT

The MIT Museum’s ‘To Look and Learn: The Creative Photography Laboratory at MIT’ documents a varied and vital visual era at the institute.

Nov 22, 2022

MIT’s new museum demystifies the world’s most complex technologies

The compelling and sometimes worrying territory where new technologies intersect with society is the overarching subject matter of the MIT Museum, which has just undergone a complete redesign for its new purpose-built space in Cambridge.

Nov 21, 2022
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Open Studio: The MIT Museum reopens in Cambridge’s tech hub

The reimagined MIT Museum looks at all the advances in technology and their positive — and controversial — effects on society, from genetic engineering to the increasing role that artificial intelligence is playing in art and media.

Nov 18, 2022

Video: Reimagining of ‘Ballet des Porcelaines’ probes the complex cultural work behind the making of porcelain

Reimagined “Ballet des Porcelaines” premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021. The ballet has since traveled to leading cultural institutions in the United States and Europe, with a recent staging occurring at the MIT Center for Art, Science … Continued

Nov 16, 2022

Höweler + Yoon shares highlights from an impressive crop of new works

The new MIT Museum, which opened on October 2, is adjacent to the MBTA Red Line’s Kendall Square subway station, making it a de facto eastern gateway to MIT’s campus.

Nov 14, 2022
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Guerilla Opera Introduces the GUERILLA PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL For 16th Season

The world premiere of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is set for February of 2023 with stage direction by Tina Mitchell and is supported by The Center for Art, Science & Technology at MIT.

Nov 7, 2022
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Crafting a New Platform for Cosplay

As the startup continued to gain traction, Kaye and Lowell began pitching Cosmosii to conventiongoers and investors alike. The pair visited the New York Comic Con, Fan Expo Boston, and many other comic-cons and cosplay gatherings to demo the new … Continued

Oct 18, 2022
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Lupe Fiasco on his latest challenge: teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recently, Fiasco (Wasalu Jaco) began a new challenge that he can add to his long résumé: an appointment as a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Nov 1, 2022

If Any Museum Was Going To Go Heavy On Tech, It Would Be MIT’s

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is widely regarded as attracting many of the brightest young minds in the tech sector, so it makes sense that the school’s museum is filled with and driven by screens, interactive features and AI-based software.

Oct 27, 2022

The 9 most prestigious universities in the world to study Performing & Dramatic Arts

The Center for Art, Science and Technology’s (CAST) Artist-in-Residence Program, invites renowned artists to MIT to collaborate with students in classes, seminars, workshops, and productions, which complements the classes offered by MIT’s renowned faculty and staff.

Oct 27, 2022
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Portraits of Black life in the South

Photographer Baldwin Lee ’72 traversed the American South over seven years in the 1980s, documenting scenes that caught his eye. Here’s a glimpse of what he saw—and his thoughts on why these scenes stopped him.

Oct 25, 2022
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MIT unveils inaugural interdisciplinary Morningside Academy for Design fellows

The MIT Morningside Academy of Design has unveiled their inaugural cohort of fellows. The fourteen graduate students, currently enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs across MIT, will become the first fellows for the new interdisciplinary center housed within the MIT School of Architecture … Continued

Oct 19, 2022
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Concert Review: Tod Machover’s “Brain, Body + Breath” at the MIT Museum

Brain, Body + Breath celebrated Tod Machover’s compositions and the MIT Media Lab team as well as the opening of the newly renovated MIT Museum. The evening included three pieces presented in public for the very first time. These compositions … Continued

Oct 19, 2022
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